Suhan Babaýewyç Babaýew (27 November 1910 - 28 November 1995) was a Kurd,Soviet and Turkmen politician. He served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan from October 1951 to December 1958.[1]
Babayev and several political allies were fired after they advocated greater ethnic Kurd representation in the Soviet government.[2]